"There's nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer" -Col. Doolittle

_________________________Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: You know what top secret is?" Rafe: Yes, sir. It's the kind of mission where you get medals, but they send 'em to your relatives. _________________________

Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: Victory belongs to those who believe in it the most and believe in it the longest. We're gonna believe. We're gonna make America believe too. ______________________________Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: You know at Pearl they hit us with a sledgehammer. This raid, even if it makes it through, it'll only be a pinprick... but it'll be straight through their hearts. _______________________________Cole Walker: I fought the Germans in France, and I fought 'em in the trenches. And I pray to God that nobody has to see what I saw. ________________________________________WHERE THE LOVE STORY BEGUN[most hilarious scene ever]

Rafe: J, L, M, K, P, O, E, T, X. Eyes like an eagle, ma'am. Evelyn: Slow down, flyboy. And instead of the bottom, read the very top. Both eyes. Rafe: Yeah. C. Sorry, J. [Clears throat] Rafe: C, W, uh, Q, uh, Q Evelyn: [Smiles] Read the bottom line again, please, but read it right to left and every other letter. Rafe: E, X... Danny: X, E. Rafe: X, E. X, E, ma'am. Ma'am, I know how this looks. Evelyn: I'm sorry, Lieutenant. I really am, but army and navy requires 20/20 vision. Rafe: Oh, I... It's not a problem with my eyes. I mean, I can see. I mean I can hit a runnin' rabbit with a $3.00 pistol. I got a problem with letters, that's all. Evelyn: Well, maybe after some schooling, you could come back and take the test again. Rafe: No, I had schooling. I mean, the teachers just never knew what to make of it, I... It's just letters. I mix 'em up sometimes. That's all. I mean, I just get 'em backword sometimes. Look here. My math and spatial reasoning and my verbal scores are all excellent. Evelyn: But you barely passed the written exam. Danny: Yeah, but he did pass it. So it's my turn now? Evelyn: No, you'll wait your turn. Danny: Yes, ma'am. Rafe: Ma'am, I'm never gonna be an English teacher. But I know why I'm here: to be a pilot. And you don't dogfight with manuals. You don't fly with gauges. I mean, it's all about feeling and speed, and lettin' that plane become like a part of your body. And that manual says that a guy who's a slow reader can't be a good pilot. That file says I'm the best pilot in this room. Ma'am, please, don't take my wings. _____________________________________________________________

SUMMARY

Long time best friends Rafe Mcawley and Danny Walker are both First Lieutenants and were recognized as the two of the best Pilots in the military under the command of Major Doolittle.They treat each other more of a brother.They still get sometimes in trouble for being too playful.They would sometimes use the military aircraft to race against each other.In the middle of training,Major Doolittle gives Rafe the news that he has been accepted into the Eagle Squadron (RAF outfit for American pilots to fight in the war). Rafe lies to Danny, though, saying that Doolittle assigned him.

Evelyn is one of the nurses and their love story is really funny.Lt Rafe failed the examination conducted by Evelyn so he begged her to just passed him.She did even though he has troubles with reading.The two had begun a relationship and Evelyn is looking forward to seeing Rafe in the city that night. Rafe and Evelyn enjoy an evening of dancing at a nightclub and later a spin in New York harbor in a borrowed police boat. Later, Rafe shocks Evelyn by saying that he has joined the Eagle Squadron and is leaving the next day. He asks her not to see him off. When he leaves the following morning, though, he is pleased to see that she has come anyway as it means she really loves him.

Meanwhile, Danny, Evelyn and the rest of their fellow pilots and nurses are transferred to Pearl Harbor where there is little action going on, though Rafe fights in numerous dogfights with the RAF. While fighting in the Battle of Britain, Rafe is shot down over the English Channel and presumed to be killed in action. Danny gives Evelyn the news and she is devastated.

Three months later, Evelyn runs into Danny at a movie theater, after they both leave after they see a news reel of British planes being shot down into the English Channel. They get coffee at a nearby diner and talk about Rafe. They soon realize they are developing feelings for each other. Danny later takes Evelyn for a sunset flight over the harbor, and afterwards the two have sex in the parachute hangar. They begin a relationship of their own. On the night of December 6, Evelyn is relieved to discover Rafe, alive and well. He explains that he survived his plane crash and was rescued by a French fishing boat, and was stuck in occupied France ever since. Danny comes soon afterward holding a telegram from Western Union stating that Rafe is in fact alive. Rafe realizes that Danny and Evelyn are now together, and feeling hurt and betrayed, leaves. Rafe and Danny soon get into a fight at the Hula Bar. When the police arrive, the two drive away and after talking, the two eventually fall asleep. The next morning, on December 7, 1941, the Japanese military begin bombing Pearl Harbor. The two drive away in search of a still standing airfield, while Evelyn and the other nurses rush for the hospital. Rafe and Danny manage to get in the air in two P-40s, shooting down seven Japanese Zeroes. After landing, Danny and Rafe return to the hospital where a bedraggled Evelyn draws blood from the two men for the hundreds of wounded men and women, but is interrupted when a man comes in and asks Danny and Rafe to assist in rescuing men from the harbor. Afterwards, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declares a state of war on the Empire of Japan. In the aftermath, the survivors attend a memorial service to honor the numerous dead, including Betty. Later, Danny and Rafe are assigned to travel stateside under Major Doolittle for a secret mission. Before they leave, Evelyn goes to see Rafe. She reveals that she is pregnant, though she does not want Danny to know. She tells Rafe that she will stay with Danny, but she will also love Rafe for the rest of her life.She hugged Danny asking him to stay alive and that she'll be waiting for him.

The Japanese Army have the members of Rafe's plane pinned down and when they are about to get shot, Danny's plane flies over and shoots the Japanese forces, before crashing. Rafe runs to Danny's side and attempts to pull a sharp piece of metal from Danny's neck, but are once again attacked by Japanese patrols. Rafe is hit over the head by a two by four, and Danny is tied to an ox yoke. Rafe picks up a pistol and shoots some of the Japanese, and is about to get shot himself when Danny hits the Japanese with the ox yoke. The remaining patrols shoot Danny, and the other pilots Red and Gooz kill off the remaining Japanese forces. Holding a dying Danny in his arms, Rafe tells Danny that he can't die because he is going to be a father, but Danny replies by saying, "No, you are", before finally dying in Rafe's arms. The remaining pilots are rescued by the Chinese, and when returning home, a pregnant Evelyn sees Rafe getting off the plane, and is hopeful that Danny is alive, until she sees Rafe carrying his coffin. In the aftermath, both Evelyn and Rafe are awarded medals. Evelyn's voice narrates that Dorie Miller, who shot down several planes during the attack, was the first black man to be awarded the Navy Cross, but would not be the last. Rafe meets President Roosevelt, and he and Evelyn are discharged from the army. A few years later after the war ended, now with a son, named Danny, Jr. after his biological father, Rafe and Evelyn, now married, are visiting Danny's grave with their son. Rafe then takes Danny for a ride in the old biplane, and Rafe and Danny, Jr. are shown flying off towards the sunset.PERSONAL THOUGHTSON THE TOPIC OF WAR.It's usually so hard & painful to watch a war movie but I'm glad the story is not limited to the morbid details of the war.It's actually a story of love,friendship loyalty and heroism.It doesn't make you feel rage and bitterness.Personally,it made me thankful and wanted to forgive and fall in love!

Usually,when it's a war movie I'm expecting bombing,bullets,blood sputtered all over the place like everything is really violent and I can't really bear watching it till the end.It's just unbearable but this movie went on a different way.It talks about what motivates each soldier when in war and what keeps them alive and fighting.It's not just war about deaths but it's more of love,hope,friendship,heroism,sacrifice,inspiration,relationships rekindled or destroyed.Either or both ways,it's usually these feelings that helps a soldier to want to survive.Just thinking there's someone waiting for you home is a major reason to endure the war.

This is History and Philippines wasn't exempted from Japan's brutality.Back in the days in my hometown,we celebrate VETERANS DAY every September.All students from elementary to High School will lead the parade joined by our municipal officials,teachers and some Veterans who can still walk.And the rest of the day would be given to our beloved Veterans who survived the war.They would talk about General Yamashita and we would hear different versions of the story.For a medic like my grandfather,he remember all the screams and the cries of his patients.For the women,those that are raped and was later called comfort women,they remember the pain of being raped repeatedly.And as a child,I grew up with deep rage with Japan.I was fully aware of my folks stories,which most are not even written in books.Lola Rosa remembers loosing all her brothers and sisters due to hunger and health conditions.All food and crops were being confiscated so there's nothing left for them to eat.Just imagining it makes me sick and I really hated them for what they did.And Yamashita was a name that most kids in school knew because in Kiangan Memorial Shrine,there's a wooden carve depicting a scene from the war and General Yamashita was hugely carved.I really thought she was a woman when I was in preschool because his name is so feminine and his carved image seemed like a woman.We still have living Veterans back at home and they will always be honored for enduring the war.

Anyways,going back to the movie,the war scenes makes me sick specially the hospital scene where Evelyn was tending thousands of dying soldiers.If I were in her shoes,I'd probably panic and don't know what to do anymore.I probably cry and be traumatized of the scene.How could you say to a soldier who's intestines are blown out that he'll be fine when you know he won't and medics are short.

ON LOVE.I guess,this is where I'm focus all through out.I think the idea of inducing a very beautiful love story within the chaos of war is brilliant.This is the reason why it's easy for me to watch the movie because I didn't pay much attention to the painful part.I was drawn with the LOVE TRIANGLE of Evelyn,Rafe and Danny.It was beautifully executed too! It was really beautifully directed and well written.When Rafe was gone,Danny stepped in to comfort his best friends girl.And when Rafe got back,things were edgy on the start but they didn't ruin their relationship.Instead,they both adjusted.Rafe sacrificed and give in.But after mission when Danny died,he still didn't completely left the two most important people in his life.He left them a version of himself that they would remember him off,his own son Danny Jr.And in return,Rafe loved his son very much.

One of the scenes that I consider most romantic was when Danny offered to fly Evelyn just to see the sunrise.For me,that was priceless because watching sunrise is my favorite.And when they got back and made love,that made it more beautiful.The second most romantic scene was the last part when Evelyn hugged Rafe from behind while they watched Danny Jr put a flower on his father's grave.Kate Beckinsale looked really beautiful but she look radiantly beautiful in that scene.She looked ultimately happy and satisfied,relieved at last from the painful memory of the war.ON FRIENDSHIP.The friendship between Rafe and Danny is priceless.I was really hoping such brotherhood today can still possibly exists because I think when you have that closeness to someone,people would speculate about your sexuality and I hated that kind of thinking.There's nothing normal anymore about deep close relationship to the same sex because people's mind are corrupted.Not that I care but there are lots of friendship destroyed because of such thinking.

I wonder,what if Danny was alive and she get back? Will the friendship be the same?And as long as Evelyn lives,will she be truly happy with Danny or she'll live all her life in regret? Well,as they say things happen for a reason.And I think,having each other is as good as having both.Because in her life,Danny or Rafe are two people that are part of her.Their friendship comes with respect and adoration for each other and I think that's what kept them together all those years.

ON THE STORY.Some got disappointed with the movie because they are looking for something else.Well,we have certain taste and thoughts so I guess if you don't like it then just live it alone.To others,they might find the movie annoying because it turned into a Harlequin Romance but for me I like it that they put the story in a different light so this way,it would be easier to watch.Just like what I mentioned earlier,it's very hard remembering this tragic event in History but I guess,as sad as it seemed,there's always something to be thankful and happy about.It goes with the story,they might have added something else but at least,it is essential as it was there purposely to remind us that love after all is the most favorite topic and the most sought after in the human heart.Over all,it's so beautiful.The cinematography.The music.The sunrise.The props and Kate Beckinsale is very beautiful.I now have added her on my limited list of celebrity crushes! I don't want to call her hot as this term is always associated as sex symbol.But I see her as a beautiful woman and I hope she really is in real life.

DEFINITELY,MAYBE...

9/17/2012

What an amazing,fantastic and incredible movie!A witty,funny and heart warming story.The movie that I would love to watch over and over again.It touches my favorite topic about FAMILY,LOVE and CAREER.What made this movie different from the others is it started with a funny scene and ends with a happy and breath taking ending.You know,where there's no bitterness involved.Where every one moved on with their lives and he,on the other hand realized maybe its time to start his own too.By facing his fears and conquering his nervousness.The first part of the movie starts with a father having to deal with his daughter by telling the truth about her mom and ended still with his daughter wanting her dad to be happy for her too.Though there's something missing on the movie.I really loved to see the part when he made his choice to be with Emily and how they simply call it off and went for divorced instead.

I mean this movie had deeply moved me because it's rare to see dad's raising kids when divorced.Usually,when divorced,kids lived with moms and dads move on with their lives though from time to time,they get in touch specially for the financial needs of their children.And I was really reflecting while watching because there were really a lot of lessons to learn from this movie.I really have enjoyed much and this movie will definitely be on my favorite movie list of all time.

ON FAMILY.When parents divorce,kids are the first to be affected Emotionally and socially.It's good that in this movie,the dad was willing to talk about it openly and his little girl is open minded about it.That's the thing,when explained,kids can easily understand.But still,emotionally affected.Like me who came from broken family my confidence is really low.Like when I go to school and other kids were talking about their family dinner,vacation etc..etc.. and I remember sitting on the corner with nothing to say because I don't even have any idea how it feels to be carried on my father's shoulder.

In High School,when asked to write about family stuff,instead I feel like a shot of arrow shot at my heart.It was just painful and when I get home i cry.When I came here in the city for college,I envy those family moments I see everywhere.Like parents here are more protective and expressive as compared to the province.It still hurts me and I can't help but think,only if mom and dad were okay,then maybe I would be so much happier.It's easy for them to just say grow up and move on,but on the way no matter how perfect life seems to me,still I'm haunted by my past from time to time.So whenever I watch movies who's kids were raised by their dad's,I find it cool and it really makes me teary eyed.It's one thing that I never had and I envy those kids who were with their dads.Like this movie,sure her dad might have made mistakes on his early life .Got a kid,was really a happy man but his little girl can tell there's something missing and he really must face it.He had to admit,it was never complete.

Maya might be a happy little girl with her cool dad but she's so interested about mother image.Sure,a lot of single parents can be both to their kids but truth is,their children still needs both as an individual.A dad is different from the physical presence of a mother.

ON LOVE. I was really laughing loud when Maya told Will he's kinda slut during his time.Because he really seem so.He seem like he can't make up his mind.He kept falling in love to women he's attracted with.What happened to genuine love.It seemed like he's having trouble separating the three :LOVE,CRUSH AND LUST.And Maya made a good point when she was telling her father how could a child be made out of mistake? Did the man put his penis mistakenly into someone's vagina? And how could they have sex with someone they don't love? If they love someone,how could they not intend to create or at least plan of being with the one they love and having a family of their own?

Will Hayes was involved with three women.One who' scared of being left behind.The second who's good in hiding what she feels.And the third one who was just curious about him and who just want to have a good time.Maybe,that kind of person answers Maya's question of people having sex with someone they don't love.Today,it's like normal thing anymore.People go to bar,flirt with someone and then ended getting laid.Then the following day,they go like nothing happened.

What I love about it is they made the LOVE story part in this movie be treated seriously.It was a big deal.Will was devastated one after the other heartache.But he never had felt the same love to all of them.He confronted them one at a time.He loved three women at different levels and ended left alone. But what's cool is,he is a man of his word.And his daughter might have called him slutty but the truth is he is sweet,thoughtful and gentlemen.He was very brave to face all this women from time to time.He was very careful to protect each and everyone of them.At the end part of the movie,it is like an explanation to his earlier life.He messed up,he was broken heart a lot,so he can make up his mind and open his eyes.So he won't confuse what they have as something casual.Maya was right.He had to go back to his love story so he can hear it himself.So he will realize what he lost and what he had to keep.And he knew it,April.Why are they both single in the end by the way? Maybe so they can find each other again.Well,if someone else is for you,no matter what you do to change its course if its meant to be yours,it's yours.

CAREER. I was really encourage to learn my job and to look at the brighter side.Will had big dreams in life but he was so shocked when he was given a job as the "toilet guy".Then he was promoted to "poster guy" and when a perfect opportunity came,he went big and his career was different ever since.Though in between his success,he failed too,still he was the toilet guy who went working as an ADVISER.

It reminds me of my attitude at work.I'm a pioneer of our account and being a pioneer,we were promised of greater opportunities.As years advanced,I was so disappointed because most of those promoted were from the later waves.And from where I'm standing,I'm stuck here.Then I was having those sentiments.At the back of my mind,I was questioning myself if I was the weakest.I was asking myself how come I had so much plans and yet not one of them were put in action.I supposed those positions were not for me.But how could I tell if I never even bothered trying to be there? In fact,I had challenged myself every month to perform with excellence but the more I'm trying,the more I'm failing and it's really very disappointing.My journal is always full of to do list.My reflections were mostly a call to be more positive and be team player.But how come,I'm still the old me.

After watching this movie,I was reminded again and again to start small.Take one step at a time.Don't hesitate to try something I'm not use to.How could I ever tell the difference if I'm not there myself.Know what I love doing and what I really want to do.I was jogging this morning and I was making those mental to do list again.Well maybe this time,I'll try one at a time.Every month,I dare myself to do something that I haven't done before.And for this month,being chosen and trusted by my team leader,I have to excel.I have to push myself to my limits.

Well,this movie is really great.Thanks to the RX HOST who mentioned this.I was tuned in the other day and Delamar mentioned it and it was kinda interesting and have it on my to watch list.I'm so glad I did!

MY FAVORITE SCENES....

(in school,after the kids learned about SEX EDUCATION )

Maya: Dad,we need to talk!

Will: (puzzled) What's going on?

Maya : Explain to me how Sam was an accident?How could someone just insert their penis accidentally to someone's vagina?

Will : Can you stopped saying penis? Can you make it cute like WIWI or something?

Maya: So now,you're getting divorced because she's boring,ugly and dumb?==================Maya: everything about you is complicated! Dad,maybe when you tell me the story,then you will realize it's not complicated at all...=============April: You're so messed up! You're a total mess,you know that?

Will: yeah,what I don't understand is how you can do almost everything and yet ended working here in a local book shop.You should go into a rehab.Yeah,like a " LIFE REHAB"...

April :( Slaps him!)This is the part where that's the only memory she want to keep with her dad.====================

Maya: Dad,I can't believe you SMOKE,DRINK and a little SLUTTY! But I still love you Dad!==================(will rehearsing his proposal with April)April: okay,I pretend to be Emily.

Will: Emily,will you marry me?

April : No! Get down on your knees!

Will: No,I don't need to..

April : okay,I don't want to.Why do you want to marry me anyway? You live far away.

Will: Because you're face is the only face I would love to see when I wake up.Because you're the woman I only wanted to sleep with and be beside you.

April: (touched and forgot they were rehearsing) okay,DEFINITELY,MAYBE....===========

RECAP

This is the bittersweet story of WILL Hayes.The story opened in a school setting where he was to fetch his daughter Maya when the kids at school was like in a deep CHAOS.They just finished learning about sex education and the kids has those reactions that every parent feared.Some find it gross,other kids were amazed how thousands of sperms raised just for one egg,sort of like a game.While for Maya,she wanted her father to explain how other kids were made as an accident like Sam.

And she never stopped convincing Will to tell him about his love story.It started with Emily.They both lived in Philly,when Will got a job offer in NY.Emily doesn't want long distance relationship but Will was positive,they can do it.

While in NY,Will was very disappointed to find out that he actually was not working for Clinton but he was the "toilet paper" boy.He endured his job until he got promoted to his career-an ADVISER/PROMOTER during campaigns.While busy working,Emily came for a visit.He secretly prepared for a proposal when he learned that Emily came to break up with him coz she slept with his room mate.Years later,Summer invited both of them to her party and there was sort of confrontation.They decided to start again since she's living in NY.They got married and have Maya.Then it simply didn't work out well so they got divorced.

SUMMER.He met her when Emily asked him to give her the diary.He went looking for her.Apparently,she's a bit wild spirited she ended kissing him on the first day they met.She was with an old writer that time but their relationship was kinda informal.He planned on proposing to Summer

Then,she met the "photo copy girl" named April.They became friends.Spent lunch together and confronted each other about heart matters.HE even rehearsed his speech of proposal for Emily with her.Then,Emily was encouraged by Will and she did what she wanted in life.She travel a lot and they still see each other casually.Then one day,April came home for a visit.This time,Will was buying her second ring for Summer.Will has no idea that all their life,they like each other a lot,only Will didn't see it that time.During Will's birthday,April prepared a party for him.That time,he admitted to April that he was in love with her.Again,he ended heart broken because that time,April was with Kevin.

He passed through a book store and found the the book April was searching for.It was a book written by his father with a message on it.He bought it and was excited to give it to her as a gift,But when he came face to face with Kevin,he decided to keep it as his only memory he has with her.

Years have past,she met April again.Then with the help of his daughter,he went and professed his love to April for the second time.

Funny how a kid can see what parents can't see on their own.Though in reality,no child would want their parents to separate.They just made the last part easier and relaxing on the part of their viewers.

WHEN HARRY MET SALLY

6:43 a.m. 14/09/2012

BEST SCENE NOTED: [after Sally fakes orgasm in a deli] Older Woman Customer: [to waiter] I'll have what she's having......(she's doing it to prove to Harry that women can fake orgasm,this put an end to their argument) HAVEY LINE: Sally Albright: " I am not your consolation prize, Harry...." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- REVIEWS QUOTED "What makes it special, apart from the Ephron screenplay, is the chemistry between Crystal and Ryan" -Chicago Sun-Times Reviewed by: Roger Ebert" The kind of little film you can get cozy with, laugh at in odd places even when nobody else is laughing - and yet people will not turn around to glower at you because they understand. -San Francisco Chronicle Reviewed by: Peter Stack [12 July 1989, Daily Datebook, p.E1] " The joy comes not from the will-they-won't-they romance between the two leads, but from the sharply written humor from the pen of writer Nora Ephron. " -Empire Reviewed Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal make a surprisingly engaging film pair. The supporting cast is great. Superbly written and directed. The restaurant "orgasm" scene has to be one of the funniest scenes ever filmed. -JayH. QUOTABLE QUOTES Harry Burns: Repeat after me. Pepper. Sally Albright: Pepper. Harry Burns: Pepper. Sally Albright: Pepper. Harry Burns: Waiter, there is too much pepper on my paprikash. Sally Albright: Waiter, there is too much pepper on my paprikash. Harry Burns: But I would be proud to partake of your pecan pie. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Harry Burns: I've been doing a lot of thinking, and the thing is, I love you. Sally Albright: What? Harry Burns: I love you. Sally Albright: How do you expect me to respond to this? Harry Burns: How about, you love me too. Sally Albright: How about, I'm leaving. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Harry Burns: I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. Sally Albright: I don't have to take this crap from you. Harry Burns: If you're so over Joe, why aren't you seeing anyone? Sally Albright: I see people. Harry Burns: See people? Have you slept with one person since you broke up with Joe? Sally Albright: What the hell does that have to do with anything? That will prove I'm over Joe? Because I fuck somebody? Harry, you're gonna have to move back to New Jersey because you've slept with everybody in New York and I don't see that turning Helen into a faint memory for you. Besides, I will make love to somebody when it is making love. Not the way you do it like you're out for revenge or something. Harry Burns: ...Are you finished now? Sally Albright: ...Yes. Harry Burns: Can I say something? Sally Albright: Yes. Harry Burns: ...I'm sorry. I'm sorry. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Harry Burns: It is so nice when you can sit with someone and not have to talk. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sally Albright: The first date back is always the toughest, Harry. Harry Burns: You only had one date. How do you know it's not going to get worse? Sally Albright: How much worse can it get than finishing dinner, having him reach over, pull a hair out of my head and start flossing with it at the table? Harry Burns: We're talking dream date compared to my horror. Sally Albright: Well, if you must know, it was because he was very jealous, and I had these days of the week underpants. Harry Burns: Ehhhh. I'm sorry. I need the judges ruling on this. "Days of the weeks underpants"? Sally Albright: Yes. They had the days of the week on them, and I thought they were sort of funny. And then one day Sheldon says to me, "You never wear Sunday." It was all suspicious. Where was Sunday? Where had I left Sunday? And I told him, and he didn't believe me. Harry Burns: What? Sally Albright: They don't make Sunday. Harry Burns: Why not? Sally Albright: Because of God. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Harry Burns: Right now everything is great, everyone is happy, everyone is in love and that is wonderful. But you gotta know that sooner or later you're gonna be screaming at each other about who's gonna get this dish. This eight dollar dish will cost you a thousand dollars in phone calls to the legal firm of That's Mine, This Is Yours. Marie: Harry. Harry Burns: Please, Jess, Marie. Do me a favor, for your own good, put your name in your books right now before they get mixed up and you won't know whose is whose. 'Cause someday, believe it or not, you'll go 15 rounds over who's gonna get this coffee table. This stupid, wagon wheel, Roy Rogers, garage sale COFFEE TABLE. Jess: I thought you liked it? Harry Burns: I was being nice. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sally Albright: Is Harry bringing anybody to the wedding? Marie: I don't think so. Sally Albright: Is he seeing anybody? Marie: He was seeing this anthropologist, but... Sally Albright: What's she look like? Marie: Thin. Pretty. Big tits. Your basic nightmare. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Harry Burns: Had my dream again where I'm making love, and the Olympic judges are watching. I'd nailed the compulsories, so this is it, the finals. I got a 9.8 from the Canadians, a perfect 10 from the Americans, and my mother, disguised as an East German judge, gave me a 5.6. Must have been the dismount. Sally Albright: Well, basically it's the same dream I've been having since I was twelve. Harry Burns: Which is? Sally Albright: Okay, there's this guy... Harry Burns: What does he look like? Sally Albright: I don't know, he's just sort of faceless. Harry Burns: Faceless guy, okay. Sally Albright: He RIPS off my clothes. [pause] Harry Burns: And? Sally Albright: That's it. Harry Burns: That's it? Some faceless guy rips off all your clothes, and THAT'S the sex fantasy you've been having since you were twelve? Sally Albright: Well sometimes I vary it a little. Harry Burns: Which part? Sally Albright: What I'm wearing. Harry Burns: The fact that you're not answering leads me to believe you're either (a) not at home, (b) home but don't want to talk to me, or (c) home, desperately want to talk to me, but trapped under something heavy. If it's either (a) or (c), please call me back. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Sally Albright: Amanda mentioned you had a dark side. Harry Burns: That's what drew her to me. Sally Albright: Your dark side? Harry Burns: Sure. Why? Don't you have a dark side? I know, you're probably one of those cheerful people who dot their "i's" with little hearts. Sally Albright: I have just as much of a dark side as the next person. Harry Burns: Oh, really? When I buy a new book, I read the last page first. That way, in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jess: Marriages don't break up on account of infidelity. It's just a symptom that something else is wrong. Harry Burns: Oh really? Well, that "symptom" is fucking my wife. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sally Albright: But I'd like the pie heated and I don't want the ice cream on top, I want it on the side, and I'd like strawberry instead of vanilla if you have it, if not then no ice cream just whipped cream but only if it's real; if it's out of the can then nothing. Waitress: Not even the pie? Sally Albright: No, I want the pie, but then not heated. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marie: All I'm saying is that somewhere out there is the man you are supposed to marry. And if you don't get him first, somebody else will, and you'll have to spend the rest of your life knowing that somebody else is married to your husband -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Harry Burns: You know how a year to a person is like seven years to a dog? Sally Albright: Is one of us supposed to be a DOG in this scenario? Harry Burns: Yes. Sally Albright: Who is the dog? Harry Burns: You are. Sally Albright: I am? I am the dog? I am the dog? ====================== Harry Burns: And was it worth it? The sacrifice for a friend you don't even keep in touch with? Sally Albright: Harry, you might not believe this, but I never considered not sleeping with you a sacrifice. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Harry Burns: You take someone to the airport, its clearly the beginning of the relationship. That's why I have never taken anyone to the airport at the beginning of a relationship. Sally Albright: Why? Harry Burns: Because eventually things move on and you don't take someone to the airport and I never wanted anyone to say to me, How come you never take me to the airport anymore? Sally Albright: Its amazing. You look like a normal person but actually you are the angel of death. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Harry Burns: Would you like to have dinner?... Just friends. Sally Albright: I thought you didn't believe men and women could be friends. Harry Burns: When did I say that? Sally Albright: On the ride to New York. Harry Burns: No, no, no, I never said that... Yes, that's right, they can't be friends. Unless both of them are involved with other people, then they can... This is an amendment to the earlier rule. If the two people are in relationships, the pressure of possible involvement is lifted... That doesn't work either, because what happens then is, the person you're involved with can't understand why you need to be friends with the person you're just friends with. Like it means something is missing from the relationship and why do you have to go outside to get it? And when you say "No, no, no it's not true, nothing is missing from the relationship," the person you're involved with then accuses you of being secretly attracted to the person you're just friends with, which you probably are. I mean, come on, who the hell are we kidding, let's face it. Which brings us back to the earlier rule before the amendment, which is men and women can't be friends. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Harry Burns: There are two kinds of women: high maintenance and low maintenance. Sally Albright: Which one am I? Harry Burns: You're the worst kind; you're high maintenance but you think you're low maintenance. Sally Albright: I don't see that. Harry Burns: You don't see that? Waiter, I'll begin with a house salad, but I don't want the regular dressing. I'll have the balsamic vinegar and oil, but on the side. And then the salmon with the mustard sauce, but I want the mustard sauce on the side. "On the side" is a very big thing for you. Sally Albright: Well, I just want it the way I want it. Harry Burns: I know; high maintenance. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sally Albright: You know, I'm so glad I never got involved with you. I just would have ended up being some woman you had to get up out of bed and leave at 3:00 in the morning and go clean your andirons, and you don't even have a fireplace, not that I would know this. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Harry and Sally discussing orgasms] Sally Albright: Most women at one time or another have faked it. Harry Burns: Well, they haven't faked it with me. Sally Albright: How do you know? Harry Burns: Because I know. Sally Albright: Oh. Right. Thats right. I forgot. Youre a man. Harry Burns: What was that supposed to mean? Sally Albright: Nothing. Its just that all men are sure it never happened to them and all women at one time or other have done it so you do the math. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Harry Burns: I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. Harry Burns: You realize of course that we could never be friends. Sally Albright: Why not? Harry Burns: What I'm saying is - and this is not a come-on in any way, shape or form - is that men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way. Sally Albright: That's not true. I have a number of men friends and there is no sex involved. Harry Burns: No you don't. Sally Albright: Yes I do. Harry Burns: No you don't. Sally Albright: Yes I do. Harry Burns: You only think you do. Sally Albright: You say I'm having sex with these men without my knowledge? Harry Burns: No, what I'm saying is they all WANT to have sex with you. Sally Albright: They do not. Harry Burns: Do too. Sally Albright: They do not. Harry Burns: Do too. Sally Albright: How do you know? Harry Burns: Because no man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her. Sally Albright: So, you're saying that a man can be friends with a woman he finds unattractive? Harry Burns: No. You pretty much want to nail 'em too. Sally Albright: What if THEY don't want to have sex with YOU? Harry Burns: Doesn't matter because the sex thing is already out there so the friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story. Sally Albright: Well, I guess we're not going to be friends then. Harry Burns: I guess not. Sally Albright: That's too bad. You were the only person I knew in New York. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marie: I don't think he's every going to leave her. Sally: I know he's never going to leave her. Marie: You're right, you're right. I know you're right. REVIEW I couldn't imagine how I was literary laughing and teary eyed all at the same time! I was reminded of my all time Favorite movies "Beyond Sunrise & Beyond Sunset" .It's more of conversational type too but never boring! Not the usual action -bed scene stuff .The script was really witty and the screen chemistry between Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal is natural! Being a movie lover and having watch a lot of movies,I agree with most of the movie reviews I read online and even quoted some.This movie will definitely be one of my unforgotten movie favorites.When I say favorite,I'm referring to a movie that I will never forget.I'm referring to having memories some lines from the movies and even if I watch a thousand movies in the next few months,this will surely be a stand out.There are some movies that are easy to love.There are some that are very entertaining.SOme are really reflective.But after a few months,I ended forgetting it totally.It's beautifully written,carefully directed and was stupendously delivered by actors who knew how to make this thing work.The lines were really very witty.The over all story is just amazing.I can even watch it over and over and still be laughing at it. I can even remember each of my favorite scene.That's how much the movie has got me.I also noticed how they presented the story in the most decent way that even if they are talking about sex,it was somehow not gross at all.The conversation was normal. At some parts of the movie,I even find myself agreeing to some conversation between the two lead characters.I mean,they have delivered their lines effortlessly and convincingly. Another thing that I love about the movie is the scenarios are really funny and all at the same time realistic.I enjoyed watching it.I laugh a lot too! And Meg Ryan is really very beautiful in her younger years until now.I mean she had maintained that same face ever since.Too Bad,she's not doing movies recently.I miss seeing her on screen....I also love the part where they had interviewed really old couples and talk about their love stories.Couples who met each other in different ways and the happy part is,they ended together til old age.Today,the ratio of divorce is increasing real fast and it's just so sweet and encouraging for the movie makers to include such story in their film.I know they are not making films to lecture people or to talk about morality.The make films for entertainment and money and its a bonus to have so rare movies who didn't directly preach to their viewers but in a way creatively presented the story so people will see and appreciate it.

The story is all about 2 people who went to NY to study.Harry being a womanizer and Sally being a weird in some ways,reserve but sentimental person.The schematic conversation I had above is actually the whole story.They were young who were filled with dreams.Came to NY,studied,get a job,fell in love and in the end,no matter how much they were trying to avoid each other,still in the end they find their way in each others hand.They were successful in their careers.Harry met some one and get married.Sally also met a few guys but not those that she typically settled for.And then,in their loneliness and desire to have some one who exactly can understand what they were up to,they became friends.And the friendship grew into romance before they knew it.What's interesting is they really don't like each other much the first time they met due to personality differences.What's even funnier is the part when they have to drive all the way to NY and they spent hours discussing about stuff and mostly opposing each other.

Well,LOVE on it's own is really hard to decipher.I GUESS,even cupid himself might be confused at times too if he had to witness the different versions of love.I guess,love is something that's not meant to be understood or interpreted or analyzed.It's something everyone feels and is meant to be expressed and be given away without expecting much in return.After all,when we say "I love you" to someone,we are stating a fact.It's a statement.So we should always not expect for an answer...

ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND

12:12 p.m. 29/08/2012 What's so unique about this movie is the story itself.The concept is very creative.If only such medical center really exists in real life,then I'm sure a lot will actually go for it. actually I don't know what happened first on the onset of the movie.Is it the part that they already know each other and have their memories erased or is it the part when they met each other for the first time? I didn't quiet get it after I read and analize the story again. Clementine is an impulsive free spirited woman while Joel is a timid and silent type guy.Despite the big difference in their personalities,they get married.Facing the consequences of their personility differences they have a huge fight that separated them temporarily from that time.Clementine had her memories of Joel be removed trhough a company named Lacuna.When Joel discovered this,he was so pissed of that he decided to erase her in his memory as well.While undergoing the process,he realized that he actually has more happy moments with her.HE tried to stop the process by trying to escape but eventually,the process was finished. Turns out,the staff at Lacuna has their own personal issues so one of the staff stole all the hospital records of their patients and have it sent to all of them.it is when Joel and CLementine found out that they were former lovers . The story ended with Joel asking Clementine to start a new with him again.She fears that the same thing might happen again if they will give another try but Joel just answered "okay" meaning he don't care.He Just wanted a life with her again.It was a simple yet very symbolic for me.It just means that there's just one person for each and everyone.The problem is some people have more than one due to certain reasons. Well anyway,Kate Winslet was really great like she was able to justify her character as impulsive and free spirited person.HEr weird hair that comes in different colors.Her mannerisms,her wild side.I mean she's really awesome.There's no usrprise that she knows her craft so well as I love watching her character mostly in romantic movies. What took me by surprise is Jim Carrey's character.I mean he is a very good actor of course but I'm not use to seeing him in such role.I was so impressed that I can't believe it's actually Jim Carrey.I usually dislike his characters in most of his movies because It felt like he is over acting but in all fairness,he amazed me in this particular movie. I think of all the Jim Carrey movies that I've watched ,so far this is the character he played that I loved the most.I never expected Jim Carrey to play a character that is so opposite of what he normally portrayed in most of his movies.Well,it's a proof that he is indeed a versatile actor and he's so skilled in his craft and they were really a perfect combination. Actually I think it's just a simple story .Not attractive at first but the way they both played their character made the movie so interesting and alive.In some ways,the story is unique and in some way it's like pointing something that really do happen in real life which we hope we can undo ,forget and just move on.Most of us must have experience pain and heartaches from certain realationships in life.It might not be limited to heart brokeness .It can be from family relationships,friendships,social struggles,etc..etc.. I admit,there were instances that I wish there's a certain medicine for such type of pain.Like it's throbbing and penetrating like a double blade into my heart.I really wish scientist can invent an over the counter drug that can make you numb from pain and eventually heal easily.Well,they say becareful what you wish for.Just like Joel,he was so angry at the time when he asked Lacuna to also remove his memory with Clementine but after going back to those memories,he actually want to keep it. In real life,when In pain,tendency is I can't see anything good.I can't feel anything good.I can't be even thankful to the wonderful things that comes along.Because of such one painful feeling,I feel so numb to anything .Everything is gray. I guess,the lesson I learn here is don't try to change things that makes up who you are because you can't change the fact that you were once there.ANd base on my experience,they might be too painful to even reminisce it but those experiences will enhance and honed us to be stronger next time. What A wonderful story indeed!

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